Like the obsessions of the insane, there is a deadly inevitability in the logic of them.
In September, 1914, as the result of strains and privation in the field, he got vertigo and lachrymose spells, with some obsessions as though he would have to shoot himself in the foot or spring out at the enemy from the trench.
The obsessions appeared at night, at a time, namely, when the vital rhythm is passing from a sympathotonic period over into a vagotonic period, at a time when the organic sensations are apt to swim to the fore.
In the third phase, the physical condition of the patient had grown much better pari passu with disappearance of the obsessions and the onset of the personality disorder.
Tremors lead to obsessions, and the obsessions in turn exaggerate the tremors.
Obsessions are characterized by dissociations from the main personality.
Jones and Clark both assert that the tics or habit spasms as probably of the same nature as the obsessionsin general.
Auto and hetero-suggestion, hypochondriacal ideas, hysterical symptoms and obsessions may, particularly in adults, initiate tics.
Obsessions are especially apt to produce habits or tics, if they produce any motor reaction.
This conception is not to be confused with Janet's idea of "derivation," as stated in "Obsessions et Psychasthenie.
Tics may develop into obsessionsand vice versa; or both may co-exist simultaneously and be unrelated.
To put the matter plainly, the Freudians contend that obsessions are symbolical representations of the repressed sexual activities and tendencies of infantile and early childhood origin.
The complex machinery of cosmic influences and obsessions by demons and magnetic mysteries was at first necessary until the simple explanation was found that all the results depend upon the working of the mind itself.
He found that large groups of mental disturbances result from a psychical trauma, a disagreeable idea which, inhibited in the mind, becomes the source of mischief and produces phobias and obsessions and hysterical motions.
Others, tormented by a pathological eroticism are continually annoying young and virtuous girls with their obsessions and their pathological grossness.
These pathological irradiations of the sexual sphere are associated voluntarily with jealous obsessions and ideas of persecution, which make the subjects furious, and which are confirmed by their paræsthesias and hallucinations.
Other morbid symptoms, such as obsessions and pathological impulses, have a certain importance as regards sexual appetite and love.
There are inquiries, too, into the repressions and obsessions of women whose lives in this fashion or that have missed their flowering.
His later books tend to be turgid, oppressive, cloying with sentimentalism and amorous obsessions in their graver moments, and in their lighter moments to fall flat from a lack of the true sinews of comedy.
It is remarkable how manyobsessions we may harbor without causing us to swerve from our accustomed line of conduct.
The passive obsessions are peculiarly provocative of worry.
The passive as well as the active obsessions can be overcome by cultivating the commonplace, or average normal, attitude, and resolving gradually to accustom one's self to the disagreeable.
Such instances illustrate the fact that when our obsessions rule us it is not the noise or the sight, but our idea of the fitness of things, that determines the degree of our annoyance.
Who can doubt that the person who has trained himself for years to repress his obsessionsis less likely to give way to this form of insanity than one who has never practiced such training?
One of the hardestobsessions to overcome is the unduly insistent habit of mind regarding orderliness and cleanliness.
Obsessions include irresistible, persistent and irrational ideas accompanied by feelings of tension and fear.
They have known no measure, been liable to obsessionsand fixed ideas; and frequently they have fallen into trances, heard voices, seen visions, and presented all sorts of peculiarities which are ordinarily classed as pathological.
They regarded sexual inversion as an episode (syndrome) in a more fundamental process of hereditary degeneration, and compared it with such morbid obsessions as dipsomania and kleptomania.
Love, marriage, procreation, cannot these be purged from the base and degrading obsessions of sex?
Mercury is a highly evolved planet, a spiritualized existence, free from the obsessions of sex and greed, an abode of love and freedom.
These are the most plausible things that are said against the reality of the possessions and obsessions of the devil.
It is with reason that obsessionsand possessions of the devil are placed in the rank of apparitions of the evil spirit among men.
Treatise on Magic, Witchcraft, Possessions, Obsessionsand Charms; in which their truth and reality are demonstrated.
Several of the obsessions and possessions noted in the New Testament were simple maladies, or fantastic fancies, which made it believed that such persons were possessed by the devil.
But we are speaking now of real possessions and obsessions which are cured only by the power of God, by the name of Jesus Christ, and by exorcisms.
Opinions are much divided on the matter of obsessions and possessions of the devil.
But the possibility, the verity and reality of the obsessions and possessions of the devil are indubitable, and proved by the Scripture and by the authority of the Church, the Fathers, the Jews, and the pagans.
Did germinal substances, unconsciously diffused, meet by chance in the external medium and unite there, it is obvious that whatever obsessions or pleasures maturity might bring they would not have the quality which men call love.
Obsessions were originally described as super-religious states of mind in which some idea assumed a terrorizing character.
He himself began to sleep better and wiped off the slate of life a series of dreads and obsessions that he was beginning to foster.
The acquired basis is very often a lack of nutrition due to insufficient food, for people who are underweight are much more subject to dreads and obsessions of all kinds than are those who are up to weight.
It may, however, be remarked that the persistence of a tic entails ceaseless preoccupation on the part of the subject, and may thus pave the way for obsessions or hypochondriacal ideas.
Perhaps we ought also to place here sensory obsessions in the shape of topoalgia, and even hallucinatory affections.
Among those who suffer fromobsessions mental coprolalia is far from uncommon.
All these gestures and stratagems may be considered as manifestations of ideas of defence, comparable to what obtains among those afflicted with obsessions and delusions of persecution.
Obsessions also play a part in the genesis of the acts we have under consideration, but of all delusional ideas those of defence are the most fertile in this respect.
The association of tic with obsessional ideas is frequently encountered, but there is no similar connection between obsessions and chorea.
There is frequently no direct or obvious connection between a patient's obsession or obsessions and his tics.
Obsessions and manias similarly are indications of mental deterioration, yet the fact conveys very scanty information as to their real nature.
But such spirits have been cast into hell by the Lord, and thus wholly removed; and in consequence such obsessions are not possible at the present time.
Footnote 1} External or bodilyobsessions are not permitted at the present time, as they were formerly (n.
One of Janet's patients (Raymond and Janet, Les Obsessions et la Psychasthénie, vol.
Morbid obsessions of modesty involving the urinary sphere and appearing at puberty are evidently based on transformed sexual emotion.
Psychaesthenia again, with its obsessions and fears, may be explained in the same manner, and its cure rests upon the same principles.
Many hidden fears, depressions, and obsessions have been removed in this manner, simply by bringing these hidden fears and thoughts to the surface and disposing of them by means of suggestion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obsessions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
